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CLUSTER CLIPBOARD-COPIES-SCREEN · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-01-08

QR code capture and decode utilities

A cluster of desktop and command-line tools that capture QR codes from screen or camera, decode them, and copy the resulting text to the clipboard, with one also generating new QR codes. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from, as only 4 dated entries exist. Traction leader is quickscan with 176 stars, while ClipQR and qrx have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2017: 1NOV 2023: 1MAY 2024: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3
JAN 2017SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 4 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01quickscan261★1 mo—Desktop app that captures a screen region and decodes QR codes from the captured image, activated by hotkey.
  2. 02reelink0★23 days—hand-codedhobbyWindows utility that decodes QR codes from screenshots and normalizes messy movie and TV show filenames locally without accounts.
  3. 03qrscan2★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyWindows tray utility that scans QR codes anywhere on screen via hotkey selection, copies the content to clipboard, and can open URLs.
  4. 04QR-Clip0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop utility that lets a phone send clipboard text to a computer by scanning a QR code over the local network.
  5. 05ClipQR0★4 moliveopen sourceUtility that scans QR codes appearing on the screen or captured by a camera and copies the decoded text to the clipboard.
  6. 06qrx0★3 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that captures a screen region, decodes any QR code found, and copies the result to the clipboard.
  7. 07NormCap0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA screen capture tool that extracts text, QR codes, and barcodes from any selected screen region using offline optical character recognition.
  8. 08qrab0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop utility that captures a QR code on the screen, decodes it, and copies the text to the clipboard.

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